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Augustine and Foucault on Human Finitude
0 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen February 9th, 2006 in Augustine, Michel Foucault[Additional selections from chapter 4 of Joyce Schuld's, Foucault and Augustine: Reconsidering Love and Power]
Foucault, as well as Augustine, stresses human finitude, making the reader aware of the “ever-shifting ground of contingencies on which they build expectations of certitude and perfection” (125). Likewise, Foucault attacks the “myth of personhood as self-originating being” by [...]
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